Sensory Beauty Secrets To Enhance Your Home

Finding ways to scent a car, office, or home can be a powerfully relaxing way to bring sensory beauty to your environment. We'll be exploring methods that can be done.

Carpet Freshener - Very easy to make your own, take about a pound of pure baking soda and mix to it a few drops of essential oil or fragrance oil and blend it up in a food processor. Then pour this out on a shallow try to allow to dry for a couple of hours, stirring occasionally. After this has dried, put in an airtight container.

You can then either sprinkle this freshener on your carpets directly, allow to sit a few minutes and then vacuum. The other way is to simply put some in your vacuum cleaner bag directly and it'll add scent as your vacuum your carpets.

Take a small saucepan at home and add apple cider, cinnamon sticks, cloves and orange or lemon peel. Simmer this mixture on low adding small amounts of water as necessary so it doesn't run dry. Very homey inviting scent to all who smell this.

Try scenting a centerpiece. Here's an idea, bake a fresh bundt cake then take a small jar and fill it with fragrant flowers and then set this small jar of flowers in the center of the bundt cake. Experiment with different scent combinations. Lemon is beautiful with honeysuckle for example.

Fragrance your pillows. You can either take a small amount of potpourri in a small sachet bag and pin to the sides of the pillow, or tuck inside the pillow case. Another method is spritz lightly with your favorite perfume, or linen spray. Be sure to check for color fastness first on an unseen area of your pillow to be sure it won't ruin the fabric first.

Closet or linen drawer scenting. Place dried sprigs of lavender in between layers of towels and sheets and along the sides of the linens. Lavender is both a moth and insect repellent, as well as a calming and soothing scent for humans.

Scent some seashells for a visual and scent pleasure in your bathroom or bedroom. For small shells, soak a couple minutes in olive oil with a couple drops of essential oil added. For large shells, add a couple drops of essential oil directly to the inside of the shell. Then place the shells in a decorative tray or basket.

Scented powder puff. Get some of your favorite scented powder, or even baby powder if that's your preference. Get one of those luxurious powder puffs, and take a long bubble bath. After the bath, pamper yourself with these beautifully scented powders applied with the soft powder puffs. The scent stays with you a long time and is one of those small ways to feel truly pampered and destressed.

Beautiful scents can be so calming in today's rushed, stressed filled lives. Finding ways to incorporate different scents, textures, sights & sounds can truly help relax and remind us to slow down and to enjoy life. Sometimes these simple things help us to refocus and not stress so much about those things we cannot change.